The VRTX operating system began as a product of Hunter & Ready, a company founded by James Ready and Colin Hunter in 1980 which later became Ready Systems. This firm later merged with Microtec Research in 1993, and went public in 1994. This firm was then acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995[2] and VRTX became a Mentor product.
The VRTX operating system was released in September 1981.[3]
Since the 1980s, the chief rival to VRTX has been VxWorks, a Wind River Systems product. VxWorks had its start in the mid 1980s as compiler and assembly language tools to supplement VRTX, named VRTX works, or VxWorks. Later, Wind River created their own real-time kernel offering similar to VRTX.
VRTX was the first operating system ported to the AMD Am29000.[6]
VRTX is used as a core for the Motorola proprietary P2K [ru] operating system, which runs on most company devices since the Motorola V60 and T280i, up to the Motorola RAZR2 V9x. It runs on several hardware platforms including LTE (Motorola V300, V500, V600, E398, RAZR V3 and others featuring the ARM7 processor), LTE2 (Motorola L7 and upcoming devices with 176x220 screen resolution), Rainbow POG (3G phones featuring an MCORE processor from Motorola E1000 to RAZR V3x), Argon (all new 3G phones with 532 MHz ARM11 processor since Motorola RAZR MAXX V6, and V3xx), and others.
Xenomai is a real-time development software framework cooperating with the Linux kernel. It could be used to port the VRTX based system to Linux although not all features are supported.
VRTX has reached end-of-life, an automated porting tool named OS Changer is available to reuse the code on a modern OS.[7]
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Versatile Real Time Executive news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2014 Learn how and when to remove this message Versatile Real Time Executive VRTX is a real time operating system RTOS developed and marketed by the company Mentor Graphics VRTX is suitable for both traditional board based embedded systems and system on a chip SoC architectures It has been superseded by the Nucleus RTOS 1 Versatile Real Time ExecutiveDeveloperHunter amp ReadyReady SystemsMicrotec ResearchMentor GraphicsOS familyReal time operating systemsWorking stateCurrentInitial release1981 43 years ago 1981 Marketing targetEmbedded systems SoCAvailable inEnglishPlatformsZ8002 i8086 i80186 ARM MIPS PowerPC SPARC RISC M68K AMD29K i960 M88K i860 i80386 CPU32 StrongARMKernel typeReal timeLicenseProprietaryOfficial websitewww wbr mentor wbr com Contents 1 History 2 VRTX 3 Implementations 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe VRTX operating system began as a product of Hunter amp Ready a company founded by James Ready and Colin Hunter in 1980 which later became Ready Systems This firm later merged with Microtec Research in 1993 and went public in 1994 This firm was then acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995 2 and VRTX became a Mentor product The VRTX operating system was released in September 1981 3 Since the 1980s the chief rival to VRTX has been VxWorks a Wind River Systems product VxWorks had its start in the mid 1980s as compiler and assembly language tools to supplement VRTX named VRTX works or VxWorks Later Wind River created their own real time kernel offering similar to VRTX VRTX editVRTX comes in several flavors VRTX 16 bit VRTX for Z8000 8086 etc VRTX 32 32 bit VRTX for M68K AMD29K etc MPV Multiprocessor VRTX for distributed applications such as distributed across VME backplanes VRTX mc Micro Controller VRTX for small systems needing minimal memory use VRTX oc On chip VRTX freeware community source code for personal and academic use license required for commercial use VRTX sa Scalable Architecture VRTX for full operating system features Loosely based on Carnegie Mellon University s Mach microkernel principles SPECTRA Virtual machine VM implementation for running a VRTX VM on Unix like hosts Also includes an open integrated development environment allowing third party tools open access to cross development resources 4 Most companies developing software with VRTX use reduced instruction set computer RISC microprocessors including ARM MIPS PowerPC or others Implementations editVRTX runs the Hubble Space Telescope VRTX runs the Wide Area Augmentation System 5 VRTX was the first operating system ported to the AMD Am29000 6 VRTX is used as a core for the Motorola proprietary P2K ru operating system which runs on most company devices since the Motorola V60 and T280i up to the Motorola RAZR2 V9x It runs on several hardware platforms including LTE Motorola V300 V500 V600 E398 RAZR V3 and others featuring the ARM7 processor LTE2 Motorola L7 and upcoming devices with 176x220 screen resolution Rainbow POG 3G phones featuring an MCORE processor from Motorola E1000 to RAZR V3x Argon all new 3G phones with 532 MHz ARM11 processor since Motorola RAZR MAXX V6 and V3xx and others See also editList of telescope parts and construction Xenomai is a real time development software framework cooperating with the Linux kernel It could be used to port the VRTX based system to Linux although not all features are supported VRTX has reached end of life an automated porting tool named OS Changer is available to reuse the code on a modern OS 7 References edit https www pcmag com encyclopedia term 57381 vrtx VRTX Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia Mentor Graphics to add real time ARM via 130m Microtec acquisition Computer Business Review October 11 1995 Ready James 1986 08 31 VRTX A Real Time Operating System for Embedded Microprocessor Applications IEEE Micro 6 4 10 doi 10 1109 MM 1986 304774 S2CID 10740518 Retrieved 2022 07 27 Ready Systems introduces Spectra environment for developing real time embedded systems Computer Business Review September 30 1992 Raytheon Systems company selects Microtecs VRTX real time operating system for wide area augmentation system PR Newswire Press release Cision US Ready Systems VRTX is first operating system for AM29000 Computer Business Review January 6 1991 MapuSoft Porting Made Easy MapuSoft Technologies 2008 Archived from the original on 2008 11 20 Retrieved 2021 08 08 External links editOfficial website Mentor Graphics Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Versatile Real Time Executive amp oldid 1163015194, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
